Frank Lattke

Frank Lattke was born in Tübingen in 1968 and studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich and in Madrid after completing a carpentry apprenticeship. He worked for DonovanHill Architects in Brisbane/Australia and founded his own office in Augsburg in 2003. At the Technical University, Lattke worked as a research assistant in the Department of Timber Construction with Prof. Hermann Kaufmann in the Faculty of Architecture in research and teaching from 2002 to 2014. His main interest is the connection between design and sustainable action in order to develop sustainable solutions in architecture. In 2022, he was appointed to the professorship of building construction and digital fabrication with a focus on wood architecture at Nuremberg University of Technology.

Frank Lattke is a member of the BDA and the Treffpunkt Architektur Schwaben of the Bavarian Chamber of Architects. He is active as a judge in public competitions and was chairman of the design advisory board of the city of Sonthofen from 2013-2022.

2011
German Timber Construction Award 2011 Prize in the category 'Concepts' for the research project TES EnergyFacade
(with TU Munich)

Schweighofer Prize 2011 for the research project TES EnergyFacade
(with TU Munich)

2013
German Building Award of the BDA for the Grüntenstraße project, Augsburg

2017
HolzbauPlus Prize 2016 for the euregon AG project in the "Commercial Building" category
(Building with hardwood)

Bavarian Chamber of Architects

BDA Bund Deutscher Architektinnen und Architekten

Building Construction and Digital Fabrication in Bachelor and Master courses

Weiterbauen - Building modernisation with prefabricated timber construction solutions

Building construction and digital fabrication with a focus on timber architecture

2008-2010
TES EnergyFacade: Timberbased element systems for improving the energy efficiency of the building envelope
international project in the research network ERA-Net WoodWisdom-Net
Head: Prof. Hermann Kaufmann, Department of Timber Construction, TU Munich
Role: Research assistant, project coordinator

2011-2014
smartTES: Innovation in timber construction for the modernisation of the building envelope
international project in the research network ERA-Net WoodWisdom-Net
Head: Prof. Hermann Kaufmann, Department of Timber Construction, TU Munich
Role: Research assistant, Project coordinator

2013-2017
leanWOOD - Innovative lean processes and cooperation models for planning, production and maintenance of urban timber buildings.
International project in the research network ERA-Net WoodWisdom-Net
Head: Prof. Hermann Kaufmann, Department of Timber Construction, TU Munich
Role: Practice partner

2019-2022
BIMwood - Development of Building Information Modelling based solutions for project-related cooperation in the value chain of prefabricated timber buildings
Head: Prof. Hermann Kaufmann, Department of Timber Construction, TU Munich
Role: Practice partner